Prepressforums.com - Easily placing a printed magazine on web for online review

Polly · #1 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 07:36 AM

I'm not sure where to post this

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We would like to post our gloss magazines to our website so customers may view the mag online, page by page. We don't need individual ad access, just page by page viewing. Does anyone have some ideas on this?

I can convert the pages to .jpg, and go through all the links, etc. and post it, but I'm wondering if that isn't re-inventing the wheel. Certainly there must be some way to do it a little quicker / more efficiently.

Thanks for any help.

slartybartfast · #2 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 07:42 AM

Polly, which programmes are you using ? If you can convert your files to PDF this should be easy for you to do in Acrobat
Neil

David · #3 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 07:43 AM

make a PDF (medium to low res, RGB) and you should be good to go. PDF files are viewable in most all browsers.

What app are you working from?
Indesign, Quark, or...?

EDIT...

damn, beat me to it.
clicked on submit and then saw it.

Polly · #4 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 07:46 AM

Allready checked into that, and that is my first choice. However, management has viewed a few websites which do it differently. Part of their issue is that they don't want it to be one document. So if I have a 120 page magazine, they want it to be all separate pages, where the viewer just clicks next and the page pops up.

Looks like a lot more work for me. A PDF would be so much easier.

David · #5 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 07:54 AM

You can view single pages in a multi-page pdf file viewed in a browser (I do it all the time). It's almost an industry standard.
What issue could they possibly have with that?

Polly · #6 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 07:58 AM

There are a lot of people in our area who are on dial-up because there is no access to high-speed (podunk nowhere). So a 120 page mag at the smallest pdf size is still a little time-consuming to download. I see their point, but I don't have to like it. 8O

SlaveToTheMan · #7 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 08:16 AM

Have you seen the web-catalog type things like Best Buy uses for it's Weekly Ads? Hit their site & up top it says Weekly Ad that pops open a Flash-based thing you flip through. I can't even imagine what it takes to produce one of those, but it's pretty cool.

Polly · #8 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 08:36 AM

Unfortunately, that's pretty much what they want. I clicked on the dialup link since that's what we're aiming for. It's just individual .jpgs. There is a company I checked into that does all this. Their name is Harvest Info. It costs like $6.00 per page for them to set it up. I'm sure I could set it up in GoLive for less than that. Maybe create a droplet in Photoshop for the jpeg conversion?

I don't think there's any fast way to do this (other than a pdf).

David · #9 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 08:44 AM

Maybe learn HTML in your spare time?
(That's what some/most of the online catalogs are)

good luck with it,
cheers,
David

PS. Not a web guy myself, I not too sure. sorry

Joe · #10 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 04:49 PM

Here is a link to the classifieds in my local newspaper. Something like this might work for you.

http://www.salem-tc.com/public/marke... r=Classifieds

And here is a link to the company that owns the technology for this. It's not cheap. It seems pretty fast and it is high res zoomable.

http://www.our-hometown.com/publisher/patent.htm

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